Conversations That Work

A search engine that listens: breakthrough in computer speech-recognition.(Information Technology)(Brief article)
The Futurist; 1/1/2010; 748 words; ...Intelligent Analysis have developed a type of search engine that works for spoken words in television broadcasts. Other similar...with little more than a smart phone to look up any recorded conversation between any two people that's occurred virtually anywhere...

A biographer traces the rise of the woman who spoke for China.(Conversation with Hannah Pakula)(Madame Chiang Kai-shek)(Interview)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 1651 words; ...China never had a civil society: there was the court, the mandarins, and the peasants. So there was a lot of preparatory work to do. But nobody ever seemed to be doing it. What was May-ling doing? Whenever the Chiangs needed money, she'd hop on...

Low life.
Thrasher; 1/1/2010; 6014 words; ...anything else is considered resisting arrest. This is a style of conversation that Jim isn't accustomed to using with anyone, especially...frequent question I get about my job is "What's it like to work with Jake Phelps?" The second-most commonly asked question...

WorldFuture 2010: sustainable futures, strategies, and technologies.(Conference news)
The Futurist; 1/1/2010; 1240 words; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4. Join in the world's most important conversation. Since 1971, World Future Society conferences have served...communications and social trends that will shape the way we live and work, such as Janna Quitney Anderson, director, Imagining the...

Lucinella
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 371 words; ...their over-reaching ambitions and their over-articulate conversations.At the centre of a seemingly endless round of literary parties...better, prize-winning poets around; she wants to get to work on a new poem but has to get her coloured folders in order...